Linux Distro Recommendations Please

[r00t]

Zenwalk - Ever tried zen computing?

[dragon]

Originally Posted by r00t

Zenwalk - Ever tried zen computing?

Hmm that looks like it might work nicely on my EEE might try it.

EDIT:

Had a quick play not bad but won't fully support the EEE out of the box (not suprising really) think ill stick with eee-ubuntu for now, just installing the new version actually

[admars]

I recently tried using an alternate xubuntu install to do a minimal command line install and then just installed bits and bobs, but some of the tutorials I found didn't seem to work, and so I had to mix and match bits from various places to try to get xorg to work properly for xwindows. But it didn't seem to good.

So I installed Ubuntulite http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/ on my old PII450 and it's OK.

before either of those I tried openSUSE 11.0, which run ok using jwm, but did install a lot of bloat. ( I use it on my main PC and like it)

DSL was mentioned earlier and is about as lean and mean as it gets. Puppy Linux is nice to, or there's a few variations of PCLinuxOS, or vector linux.

Those are all aimed at ppl who want an up and running lightweight desktop so may not be what you want.

As mentioned earlier the debian net install from what I've read is a good way to get what you want and may be what I try next if I get unhappy with ubunutlite.

If you want to go hardcore try Slackware or do it from scratch:http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[popper]

slacks (aka slackware, that slax is build from, livecd scripts etc) is hardly hardcore though LOL,
for real hardcore theres only one real option and thats Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page

it seems to run ok on the ppc soc based Efika fine and play HD (old DivX aka mpeg4-part2) content http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Efika so should be fine on any x86 kit you care to try.

must get around to trying a LFS one day when im in the mood thanks for that i keep forgetting it.


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